PRIME Minister David Cameron said the rioting was due to the public’s lack of respect, lack of ethics and lack of discipline. What crass hypocrisy is this?

Both the police and the government are morally bankrupt and ethically corrupt.

Their words and actions vilifying the disaffected youth are born out of a self-denial and should be viewed with the contempt they deserve.

They spout pitifully about retribution against the looters “the fight back has begun” “we will seek you out” assiduously persecuting them while fast-tracking through the courts.

The police on the other hand, all of a sudden, don coats of piety after cynically committing self-serving negligence in a dereliction of their statutory duties, standing back and (thereby) condoning the looting and arson.

This, in contempt for the public they are paid to serve, was to further their own political fight against forthcoming cuts in budgets.

Homes and businesses were sacrificed and lives put at risk to support their own selfish aims.

Cameron says that society has a sickness when it’s plain to see that his government and the police are the epicentre of this contagion.

Recently the government has been embroiled in a number of “wrong doings” and the police mired in corruption.

No fast tracking through the courts and jail sentences for these miscreants.

The youngsters caught up in the looting may have lost their moral compass and perhaps need good honest role models to develop respect.